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The Big Switch – Australia’s Electric Future
Non-Fiction Forum
Hosted by:
Nicola Burgess
August 28, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
FreeAn inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia’s energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis.
An optimistic – but realistic and feasible – action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything.
Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now – but what? Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In The Big Switch, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint – optimistic but feasible – for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.
‘I’m a scientist, inventor and father who wants to leave my kids a better world. The data convinces me that it is still rational to have hope.’ -Saul Griffith
Read the book, come with an open mind, hear differing perspectives and uncover what your fellow readers think.
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